9:30am

The Knowledge GAP, University of Toronto Scarboorugh / Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network

Denisse is a Research Associate for the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet) and part of the Knowledge G.A.P. project, a research collective investigating the geopolitics of academic knowledge production. She is interested in inclusive and transgressive... Read More →

10:00am

Communities lie at the core of successfully making the transition to systems of research and education that are open by default. Culture is actively created by the individual decisions that people make everyday. However, when looking what open advocates prioritize and where investments are made, it seems this is regularly forgotten. Too often we built for rather than with. We create technical infrastructure then ask communities to adapt to the tools rather than building them in deep collaboration with the communities they seek to serve. We talk about the important of changing behaviors, but too rarely support the numerous and varied ways in which this work needs to happen. To make open research and open education a reality—in ways that realize their full potential and are equitable—community building needs to be the foundation upon which our other efforts are built. This panel will explore examples of how community building can lie at the core of the shift to open and reasons why this is essential.

Stacy Allison-Cassin is an Associate Librarian at York University. She has held a variety of roles, including digital pedagogy, digital humanities, and cataloguing librarian for music. She held the W.P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship from 2015-2017.

Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin is a co-director of the #scholcommlab, as well as an assistant professor at the Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing and an associate director of research of the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Co-Organiser of Africa OSH and President of Association for the Promotion of Open Science in Haiti and Africa (APSOHA)., Projet SOHA

I am a PhD Candidate at Laval University (Canada), working on: The Contribution of the maker movement to the sustainable development of Africa. For this purpose, I am studying 3 Fablabs based in Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Senegal. One aspect of my research is to describe how African... Read More →

Linguist, agent, experiencer. Currently I'm working as the Open Science Officer of the European Research Infrastructure DARIAH to facilitate Humanities' inclusion to and sufficient representation in Open Science.

11:45am

12:00pm

You can find your group at opencon2018.org/groups. Your group number will be the same as your group table in the Collaboratory.

We'll explain this session before the break and each group has been assigned an "anchor" who understands more depth about the session.

OpenCon is a community, a diverse one, and to flourish communities need time to connect. One of the best ways to do that is through telling stories. Stories are at the core of how we identify and express ourselves, interpret and shape our worlds, and connect with others. The thing is, between grabbing a coffee at the break, seeing a friend across the hall, or grabbing some food it’s so rare to find time at an event to sit down with your fellow attendees to just listen & connect. At OpenCon, we wanted to make sure this wasn’t the case. Because OpenCon is an experiment, this year we’re trying something new, again, after attendees love the session in 2016. Enter: the “Story of Self Circles”.

Story circles are, at their heart, extremely simple. A small group sits in a circle, and each member takes turns to tell their story, uninterrupted, with no questions or comments before, during or after. The question each member answers is “What brought you to where you are now?”. This isn’t a chance to recall travel nightmares, or your resume, it’s a chance to tell the story of your life. While you talk, others simply listen.

1:15pm

Food, for all dietary needs (vegetarian, halal, vegan, gluten free etc), will be provided. If you're unsure if your needs have been catered for or want to check an allergy please get in touch with a member of staff.

2:25pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

2:25pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

Hello! I run Code for Science & Society, a US-based nonprofit that works with people to develop, launch, and sustain open projects. I'm thrilled to be at OpenCon this year and will be excited to discuss any of our sponsored projects as well as the big picture issues facing the global... Read More →

Hello! I am the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Montana State University. I run an APC fund, am a repository manager, am the copyright expert at my university, publish three OA journals on Open Journal Systems, and work to help researchers better communicate their findings, especially... Read More →

2:25pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

I’m an open publishing advocate, working to create a more inclusive and equitable knowledge ecosystem through technologies and processes that support significant and sustainable change in educational and academic publishing.

I’m an early career librarian working on Open Education initiatives in Canada. I’m all about asking those tough questions, because working and collaborating in the Open is better when equity and inclusivity are top of mind. Come talk to me about scholarly communications librarianship... Read More →

2:25pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

Science and Technology Policy Deputy Director, National Council for Science and Technology

Eunice holds a major in International Relations and master studies in International Development. Her first approach to Open was in 2013, while collaborating as Visitor Research Associate within the AidData Research Lab from The William and Mary College. There she got familiar with... Read More →

2:25pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

Liaison Officer for Medical Education issues, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine

I am a final year medical student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the Liaison Officer for Medical Education of IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students). IFMSA represents 1.3million medical students from 127 countries. It represents the opinions and ideas... Read More →

2:25pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

I am the Communications Director of Open Foundation West Africa a regional non profit organization headquartered in Ghana leading interventions of Open source resources. I am also a graduate student of Communication with particular interest in digital communication and new media... Read More →

2:25pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

I work as an instructional technologist at a mid-sized Canadian university. My work focuses on digital pedagogy, and I primarily support instructors to develop their instructional practice(s) in a variety of learning environments at this intersection. An open advocate, I encourage... Read More →

5:15pm

My name is Roshan Karn and I am a final year medical student at Institute of Medicine, Tribhuwan University in Nepal. I established the organization named Open Access Nepal in early 2014, after attending the Berlin 11 Satellite Conference for Students and Early Stage Researchers... Read More →

Hello! I run Code for Science & Society, a US-based nonprofit that works with people to develop, launch, and sustain open projects. I'm thrilled to be at OpenCon this year and will be excited to discuss any of our sponsored projects as well as the big picture issues facing the global... Read More →

10:00am

Open Reactions is a time for attendees to reflect openly on the conversation so far at the event. Charlotte, our moderator, will open up the floor for feedback and critical reflection from the audience. Organizers will be on hand to address concerns. You can give feedback privately and at any point at: opencon2018.org/feedback.

10:10am

While the Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education movements often lean on rhetoric around social justice, equity, and the democratization of knowledge, in many ways, the movements continue to marginalize underrepresented scholars and students. Mainstream efforts to advance Open centre digital solutions and dominant (often Western) ways of knowing. At the same time, they fail to acknowledge issues salient to marginalized social and geographical contexts, such as the digital divide, non-Western ways of knowing, and the colonization of information. This OpenCon panel session aims to prompt critical discussions around the ways in which the Open movements have replicated some of the same systems of power and oppression in higher education that they were originally meant to address. Audience members should leave with a more critical view of openness, and be encouraged to reflect on the following questions:

How do the solutions put forth by the Open movements reinforce Western dominance, colonialism, as well as barriers on the basis of race, class, gender, etc...?

How does exclusion and a lack of diversity impact their own Open advocacy work in their communities and/or institutions?

The Knowledge GAP, University of Toronto Scarboorugh / Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network

Denisse is a Research Associate for the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet) and part of the Knowledge G.A.P. project, a research collective investigating the geopolitics of academic knowledge production. She is interested in inclusive and transgressive... Read More →

I am an Associate Profess, Teaching Stream, in the Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough. My research and teaching interests have been centered on the nature of knowledge production and whether open access and open science could disrupt the current... Read More →

11:55am

12:10pm

Food, for all dietary needs (vegetarian, halal, vegan, gluten free etc), will be provided. If you're unsure if your needs have been catered for or want to check an allergy please get in touch with a member of staff.

1:20pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

1:20pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

Hello! I run Code for Science & Society, a US-based nonprofit that works with people to develop, launch, and sustain open projects. I'm thrilled to be at OpenCon this year and will be excited to discuss any of our sponsored projects as well as the big picture issues facing the global... Read More →

Hello! I am the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Montana State University. I run an APC fund, am a repository manager, am the copyright expert at my university, publish three OA journals on Open Journal Systems, and work to help researchers better communicate their findings, especially... Read More →

1:20pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

I’m an open publishing advocate, working to create a more inclusive and equitable knowledge ecosystem through technologies and processes that support significant and sustainable change in educational and academic publishing.

I’m an early career librarian working on Open Education initiatives in Canada. I’m all about asking those tough questions, because working and collaborating in the Open is better when equity and inclusivity are top of mind. Come talk to me about scholarly communications librarianship... Read More →

1:20pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

Science and Technology Policy Deputy Director, National Council for Science and Technology

Eunice holds a major in International Relations and master studies in International Development. Her first approach to Open was in 2013, while collaborating as Visitor Research Associate within the AidData Research Lab from The William and Mary College. There she got familiar with... Read More →

1:20pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

Liaison Officer for Medical Education issues, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine

I am a final year medical student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the Liaison Officer for Medical Education of IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students). IFMSA represents 1.3million medical students from 127 countries. It represents the opinions and ideas... Read More →

1:20pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

I am the Communications Director of Open Foundation West Africa a regional non profit organization headquartered in Ghana leading interventions of Open source resources. I am also a graduate student of Communication with particular interest in digital communication and new media... Read More →

1:20pm

You have been assigned to a workshop (or, you selected one if you’re citizenship suggests you’re north american), you can find out which at opencon2018.org/groups, or it’s in your inbox.

OpenCon’s mission is to catalyse action towards contextual culture change, at scale, in service of a more open, diverse, inclusive and equitable research and education system. Doing that is hard. One of our experiments in making it easier is to create ways to give participants the opportunity to constructively identify, understand, and tackle complex challenges that matter to them in a rapid, inclusive, and agile way. We think a technique called Design Thinking can be used to do this.

In these interactive workshops, you’ll use Design Thinking to break down a challenge facing your region, and get a chance to learn and practice the skills for later application in the Unconference, Do-a-thon, and of course your own work. Along the way, we hope you’ll create shareable, concrete outputs from the workshop that can give birth to regional collaboration, novel ideas for action, projects to rally around, and a deeper understanding of challenges.

I work as an instructional technologist at a mid-sized Canadian university. My work focuses on digital pedagogy, and I primarily support instructors to develop their instructional practice(s) in a variety of learning environments at this intersection. An open advocate, I encourage... Read More →

3:35pm

The open source FLAX [1] language project team have developed an application called F-Lingo [2]. Implemented as a Chrome extension, F-Lingo works on top of FutureLearn – an online MOOC platform – to help you learn about selected words, phrases, and concepts in the text you're reading. This presentation will introduce the F-Lingo Chrome extension currently under study with learners enrolled in FutureLearn’s Practical Data Mining [3] courses. This study aims to address whether integrating language tools into an online MOOC platform can supplement learning.

Once F-Lingo has identified keywords, phrases, and concepts within text, it provides an interactive interface for gaining further information about each, such as definitions, example sentences, and related collocations. For keywords, definitions are retrieved from Wiktionary and example sentences are derived from both the content of the course and the British Library’s Open Access E-theses collections [4]. For phrases, both example sentences and related collocations are derived from the FLAX Wikipedia collection. Finally, concept descriptions and related concepts are retrieved from Wikipedia using the Wikipedia Miner toolkit [5].

F-Lingo has been developed by Jemma König in her PhD project at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Using it will help her gather experimental usage data for her PhD. If you want to see what F-Lingo does without installing it, this 3-minute video on YouTube [6] illustrates its facilities.

I am an open education practitioner and researcher with the open-source data-driven Flexible Language Acquisition project (flax.nzdl.org) at Waikato. Being somewhat nomadic, I have gained experience and understanding from learning, teaching and researching across different educational... Read More →

3:35pm

Git and GitHub are powerful tools for collaboration, but both have a steep learning curve. I am an certified instructor with the Carpentries and I have taught the Git lesson several times. I'll give you a gentle introduction to version control and how you use Git for your own projects, but more importantly how to use it to collaborate.

No previous experience required - I will get you up to speed. I'm also happy to answer your Git questions or if you are a Git expert please come along and help teaching others.

If you have a Mac or a Linux laptop - git is already installed. If you have a Windows laptop, you can download Git for windows https://gitforwindows.org

3:35pm

Darakht-e danesh' means "knowledge tree" in Dari, one of the official languages of Afghanistan. The Darakht-e Danesh Online Library for Educators is a repository of open educational resources for teachers, teacher trainers, school administrators, literacy workers and others involved in furthering education in Afghanistan. These open source resources include lesson plans, pedagogical tools, exercises, experiments, reading texts, work books, curricula and other resources for use in Afghan classrooms.

In this session, an overview of Education system in Afghanistan and our work on OER will be explained. Additionally, we will share our methodologies in the ground, our successes and challenges. We also will share what we want to achieve next in Afghanistan on Open Education, Open Access and OER and how the community in OpenCon can help us achieve these goals.

3:35pm

There are people all across your campus who care about the world of Open - but how do you get them in all in the room to start making changes on your campus? n this session, we will going over what it takes to get staff, students and faculty on board to create a Open Educational Resources/ Open Education Steering Committee. As the Students' Union VP Academic, and the Chair of our Campus OE Advocacy Group, I have the unique perspective of the student aspect of OER, but it's challenging to see all perspectives. In this session, we will go over what the different stakeholders want to hear, and how to get them on board to help integrate OE changes on your campus.

Akanksha is the 2018-19 Vice President Academic at the University of Alberta and the Chair of the University of Alberta Open Education Advocacy Group. In this role, she represents to 32,000 Undergraduate students to the internal university through the variety of committees she sits... Read More →

3:35pm

The first man-made plastics were invented in 1839, and in the 179 years since, hundreds of different plastics have been created and are being used across all industries from agriculture to aviation. Plastics are one of the most important material class on the planet, but they also the most environmentally destructive one too.

New kinds of ‘bio-plastic’ have been developed to tackle some of the problems with plastics but the products we buy often aren’t what they are cracked up to be.

Could there be ways to get around this confusion about plastic by encouraging open research and open education in this field? Join me in discussing potential opportunities to save us from plastic pollution.

3:35pm

Most of the well educated people acknowledge the role "luck" has played in them receiving proper education. Whether it is being born and raised in a developed country with a proper educational system or growing up with wealthy parents who invested in their children's education or others. However, other individuals born in less some developing countries which do not invest much in education or whose parents did not really have the funds required to educate them in the current expensive educational system were less lucky in that manner. This issue may have hindered a lot of potential brilliant minds in receiving proper education that would have enabled them to contribute to the development of our species, as the saying goes 'maybe the next Einstein or Steve Jobs is somewhere in Africa or Asia or somewhere else not having access to proper education'.

In this challenge, I would like to brainstorm with the attendees on ideas that may dilute this luck factor and allow for proper education being available for everyone. We will follow the Design thinking approach and hope to come up with a project that tackles this issue.

3:35pm

While much of the discussion around open access focuses on scientific research, free and meaningful access to reports and data produced by governments is an important part of the picture. In the case of intergovernmental organisations in particular, there are four main benefits from open access to the works they produce: greater transparency around decision-making; support for research, jobs and growth; the moral justice of the public being able to access works for which they have paid; and the example set to national governments. Some IGOs, such as UNESCO or the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), have been leading the way with open policies. However, there’s still many IGOs whose policies are far from being open. Stephen Wyber, manager of policy and advocacy at IFLA, has done research to map existing policies on OA and IGOs. He has identified where each stands regarding open access policies. IFLA is planning to release a statement shortly, pointing out the issues and providing recommendations for next steps. IFLA will also continue advocating for open policies within IGOs. During this UNCONFERENCE session, I will briefly present some of the results from the study and will welcome discussion around ideas on the questions and challenges the topic raises, experience from participants in advocacy, and discussion around the next steps.

3:35pm

This will be the third annual meeting of the OHSS advocacy group, where OpenConners working in the humanities and social sciences come together to share they work, reflect on the unique challenges in our disciplines, and identify action we can take together to strengthen our presence in the Open movement. All are welcome!

I’m an open publishing advocate, working to create a more inclusive and equitable knowledge ecosystem through technologies and processes that support significant and sustainable change in educational and academic publishing.

3:35pm

The goal of this discussion is to brainstorm how might we make useful physical research materials more accessible to others and to help ensure that the use of these materials are reproducible. How might we incentivize researchers to not only make their published (or unpublished) biological materials more visible and readily available to others but to also ensure that the necessary protocols and data are associated with these physical materials?

3:35pm

Whether it's finding and creating great OER, teaching others the skills needed to do Open Science, or just talking about OA in an engaging way with the wider global community, there's a place on online video platforms for Open.

This session is is a great opportunity for people who are interested in using online video to come together and talk about what it is, the barriers that exist to using it, and how to get started with it. We won't talk just about the platform or medium, but the cultures, genres, and communities that exist in and around it, and how OA initiatives can find their niche in each of them. We'll also cover the resources out there created to help you succeed in getting started.

Toward the end of the session, we'll move from just talking about it to actually doing it -- attendees who want to will be able to participate in the creation of an "Open PSA," where they introduce themselves and talk a little bit about what they do and why they care about OA. These will be edited together and uploaded to the facilitator's YouTube channel, Stacks & Facts (a channel about library and information science).

3:35pm

Entering the open community can be a whirlwind of new jargon, people, and practices. What is “scholarly communication”? Are “APCs” a good thing or bad? Which of the many conferences and journals with “open” in the name are worth your often-scarce time and resources?

New practitioners and advocates need to learn new terms, but also must master a “hidden curriculum” of cultural expectations and invisible systems similar to the invisible curriculum that first-generation students navigate as they enter higher education: https://www.chronicle.com/article/We-Must-Help-First-Generation/244830

This session invites you to a conversation about what that curriculum is and how we can teach and improve it. A team of librarians is developing an OER that will introduce the nuts-and-bolts of Scholarly Communication (https://lisoer.wordpress.ncsu.edu) but this movement is designed to center new voices and move beyond traditional and received practices. How can we move beyond the limited perspectives of those (mostly white, North American, R1-focused) authors to create a more inclusive and transformative open educational resource? Join the conversation to share your own experience and help us think about how to welcome everyone and support a more inclusive open movement.

3:35pm

Why did a Syrian drop ping pong balls down the staircases of Damascus? Who is Jorge Cham and how did he get half a million people to subscribe to his thoughts? Are you part of the OpenCon Rebel Alliance?

To change a culture, we must first raise awareness of an issue and increase participation in the discussion, creation and adoption of potential solutions. There are many strategies and tactics for raising awareness, and at OpenCon we appreciate the importance of considering diversity, equity and inclusion when we plan for new engagement strategies and campaigns.

In this session, we will find out about strategies used in political campaigns, on social media and by non-violent direct action-based resistance movements. We will share the issues we are trying to raise awareness of. We will identify who we are trying to engage with and explore their needs and motivations. We will have fun coming up with our own ideas for fun, humorous, inclusive and engaging ways to raise awareness of open issues, inspired by campaigns that have toppled power structures!

This unconference is a workshop session leading into the doathon challenge: “How might we raise awareness of open practices or issues in fun and inclusive ways?”

3:35pm

Everyone want to publish the research in journals but why many of them dont go with open access journals what is problem ? how to identify to fake predatory journals. This session may be answer of all question

3:35pm

A brainstorming session on how to increase communication and community between students/staff/researchers within University networks and publishers to promote an open culture and open publication as the default scholarly communication model. For example: The University of California system provides research infrastructure for over 30 universities across California. Through policy and infrastructural changes we can influence the dominant model of scholarly communication at the level of R1 institutions to promote openness within university networks. Lets brainstorm the problems and solutions researchers and universities face when building this infrastructure.

4:45pm

5:00pm

This session is for anyone interested in creating open textbooks and will consider how we can leverage the power of community to make creation easier and more inclusive. We'll also reflect on what's missing in terms of support/infrastructure for communities of creation in open ed and how we might address those shortcomings.

I’m an open publishing advocate, working to create a more inclusive and equitable knowledge ecosystem through technologies and processes that support significant and sustainable change in educational and academic publishing.

5:00pm

Good intentions do not always develop into good results. What are the limitations or drawbacks of open access to data? Open access may allow companies to by-pass the trade of data because data would be freely available. Machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence are becoming more and more powerful in finding patterns to predict people's personality and drive their future choices when buying or voting. How might policy and legislation protect us from unknown unintended misuses of the knowledge we share? Is legislation and policy about open access advancing at the right pace? We especially invite policy makers to contribute to the discussion with their perspective.

5:00pm

Zines are DIY, self-published booklets: they are a way of sharing ideas through writing, art, or comics! We'll talk about zine-making as a tool for political education, and go over some techniques for creating them.

We'll then start to work together on a (fun! openly licensed!) DIY resource booklet zine that cover concepts around race, accessibility, power, privilege, and colonialism in the context of open research and OER—and highlight projects/initiatives at the intersections of these topics.

This zine will aim to build off the "Critical Approaches to Open Scholarship" reading list that was part of the OpenCon 2017 do-a-thon. This document was meant to be a community-sourced compilation of blog posts, articles, comics, or other media that offer a critical, anti-oppressive take on various aspects of digital information sharing, open scholarship, libraries and higher-ed more broadly. You can find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UntfqcGgsg47--caFFNjksZ7N2zBmnBD1nLdjYTokQQ/edit#

5:00pm

How might we communicate the importance of open scholarship to a broader audience ?

Dance is a powerful tool to convey ideas and to reach people. Complex scientific ideas have been communicated to non-specialist audience using dance (e.g. Dance your PhD contest). Hence, communicating vocabulary and concept of open scholarly practice in the form of dance, can engage broader audience. This experimental session will focus on expressing ideas of open scholarly practices through dance, collaborative choreography and improvisation theatre. We will collaboratively choreograph few steps aimed at reducing the knowledge gap in open scholarship vocabulary through performing arts. This unconference session is aimed at brainstorming and hence is not limited to participants with interest in dance and other performing arts. Participants interested in conveying ideas to engage public audience but are shy with dancing or have interest working behind the scenes are strongly encouraged to join. This exercise will result in a do-a-thon to create outreach content aimed at communicating the importance of open scholarly practice for a wider audience.

I am a biomedical scientist working on biological clocks and sleep. I think about Open Science, Open Peer Review and Open Data as a means to achieve reproducibility in research. I am interested on how early career researchers can steer the evolution of research evaluation. I will... Read More →

5:00pm

Let’s talk and move toward action. Set up: The number of journals is increasing rapidly. Publishing infrastructure is increasingly accessible. Journals continue to aim for bench markers set by large, traditional publishers. Beall’s list has been revised and republished by others. Cabell’s—a subscription journal index—now has 10,000 journals on a “blacklist.” How might we rethink journal “quality” in a way that benefits authors, editors, and libraries without duplicating the faults of the past?

5:00pm

Volunteer-dependency has been a key characteristic for Open source projects. Whether it is through contributing on Github, creating open geographic data on OpenStreetMap, or editing Wikipedia, volunteers are the backbone in many Open initiatives. Consider the following questions: * How might we expand our volunteer recurecruit network and improve the recruitment practices to encourage those who do not typically participate in Open (source) projects? * How do we ensure a diverse, inclusive, and safe volunteer environment/community for those underrepresented within the projects to join? * How do we reduce and resolve volunteer conflicts to maintain volunteer retention? * How do we encourage those who bear high opportunity cost to volunteer for free to still join the initiatives? (E.g. consider a marginalized group in the society whose input and participation could be invaluable to Wikipedia editing... Or a group of refugees who struggle financially but can contribute to the OpenStreetMap on refugee camp mapping...) * Have you worked with volunteers in your Open education/open data/open source/open access projects? What was your strategy of volunteer management and what are areas of improvement you see?

5:00pm

Discuss university needs around research management platforms - from grant management systems to text and data repositories to discovery tools. What open source platforms already exist? What open source systems are needed? How can these open source platforms be integrated and/or modularized?

Carly Robinson earned her Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry from the University of Colorado, in 2013. She also holds a M.S. in atmospheric chemistry from the University of Colorado and a B.S. in applied physics and mathematics from Michigan Technological University. In addition to her... Read More →

5:00pm

As OpenCon enters its fifth year, we want to ask for the community's help in transitioning OpenCon from its annual fundraising cycle to a more long-term financial foundation. OpenCon is primarily sustained by generous support from organizations that sponsor each year. The challenge with this model is that most of the budget needed to sustain the project is raised in the year it is used. While this model has been essential in getting OpenCon off the ground, it also has negative aspects: making it more difficult to provide travel scholarships and creating risk for the project if there were to be a shortfall.

This session will provide an overview of how OpenCon has been supported financially to date, ask participants to brainstorm ideas for expanding that support, and sketch out a plan for moving forward and engaging the broader community in this work.

5:00pm

As mentioned on twitter and in DEI question time, I am seeking support from people who do work similar to me: supporting a community to make a change that benefits them and also improves the system for everyone. How can we do our work well? What do we need to be aware of? How can we learn and grow together? I welcome people who identify with these questions or who have further requests and needs to gather to discuss a means for us to support each other and exchange knowledge and take part in and influence the professionalisation of community building/support work. I do not convene this session as a leader but I offer to facilitate this discussion as someone who needs the support myself!

9:30am

10:15am

Open Reactions is a time for attendees to reflect openly on the conversation so far at the event. Charlotte, our moderator, will open up the floor for feedback and critical reflection from the audience. Organizers will be on hand to address concerns. You can give feedback privately and at any point at: opencon2018.org/feedback.

10:55am

You can find more on the do-a-thon here: doathon.opencon2018.org. A copy of the slides we will use to introduce the sessions can be found here (these won't be final until on the day, so don't look until then!).

If you're struggling to get involved, or are confused, go to the help desk.

12:00pm

Food, for all dietary needs (vegetarian, halal, vegan, gluten free etc), will be provided. If you're unsure if your needs have been catered for or want to check an allergy please get in touch with a member of staff.

1:00pm

You can find more on the do-a-thon here: doathon.opencon2018.org. A copy of the slides we will use to introduce the sessions can be found here (these won't be final until on the day, so don't look until then!).

If you're struggling to get involved, or are confused, go to the help desk.

3:30pm

You can find more on the do-a-thon here: doathon.opencon2018.org. A copy of the slides we will use to introduce the sessions can be found here (these won't be final until on the day, so don't look until then!).

If you're struggling to get involved, or are confused, go to the help desk.